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The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 27 mentions

• maybe one of the first talks we're refuting the inherent existence of the self and that means that there is a self
• however if if the self had inherent existence which is what it feels to have if it had
• is what it feels to have if it had inherent existence it would have to be it would have to be if it had inherent
• then i must necessarily refute the inherent existence of of the self okay now when i first heard that i
• um but that's different and trusting the inherent existence of the self it's quite subtle but you certainly it's
• foreign buddhas lack inherent existence buddha's the buddhas would be the first
• buddha's the buddhas would be the first to say that they lack inherent existence absolutely and if they say they don't
• will hide sense of inherent existence and actually fleshing them out a bit more and
• um same if i take my body as a thing i'm examining inherent existence of my body just dump the parts together arms and
• no present moment that's findable either that too is empty of inherent existence um but begin to see it cannot be the
• conventionally is able to function it's but it has no inherent existence so the first thought is it's quite a thing to
• process is is not findable as uh as an inherent existence in neither the elements that make up the process and
• because we feel that the self has an inherent existence and things too have an inherent existence
• inherent existence and things too have an inherent existence and we need to see that that is delusion
• the unfindability in any of these ways implies the lack of inherent existence it doesn't imply that the self doesn't
• it's like what exactly are we refuting when we say inherent existence it's this sense that something exists somehow
• meaning of this unfindability as meaning the lack of inherent existence if you get into this practice whether
• self reappear and it reappears with a sense of inherent existence and then it's almost like uh
• and holding that knowledge that it appears as inherent existence and i know it's not and that's a very important uh
• that's uh we're feeling that inherent existence step number one and then feeling the
• no the the convictions that if we had an inherent existence cell it would have to exist in one of these ways so that's a
• that the self is that there's no inherent existence but that's not what you start believing
• we really know something and we know the lack of inherent existence of the self or anything else we know the emptiness
• thoroughly kind of cleans out any possibility of inherent existence anyway and so sometimes we'll have a feeling
• is finding some way to give something inherent existence and that that yeah i would i would uh in your opinion
• also empty in and of themselves they too lack inherent existence and like we said with the anata practice
• subtle places that delusion can hide is giving inherent existence to awareness that we tend to feel like well awareness

No Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 25 mentions

• really see deeply that awareness lacks inherent existence and what does that mean and how my eye
• awareness or consciousness whatever is empty of inherent existence now that might seem it might sound
• does that even mean awareness is empty of inherent existence it's important to realize with this
• innate intuitive sense of inherent existence of things including awareness
• existence we sense things as having inherent existence and that level uh much much deeper whether we're conscious
• real it's the one thing that has inherent existence and that can be a religious philosophical spiritual belief
• that uh the buddha clearly said that awareness also lacks inherent existence and is also dependent arising
• uh are kind of still the default view of inherent existence just an intellectual view is not going to cut things i need
• to a person that to say that awareness doesn't have inherent existence would then be a disappointment a mystical and
• but to really see that awareness lacks inherent existence is even more amazing even more freeing
• we might call it of an awareness that does have inherent existence and i keep saying is emptiness is not a teaching of
• fall back on my default view of the inherent existence of things and something in there whether it's bear
• in the awareness something something will be given inherent existence okay
• empty shunya is empty awareness lacks inherent existence not just that it doesn't belong to anyone but that it
• doesn't belong to anyone but that it actually lacks inherent existence okay um it's already subtle to see that um
• consciousness awareness mind whatever we call it lacks inherent existence very difficult
• translations which seems to give a kind of inherent existence to the luminosity of the mind kind of by itself they are
• um it's just another way of saying it's empty of inherent existence there's nothing uh there rather than it's a vast
• there is knowing but it's empty of inherent existence do you understand
• is knowing but that knowing is empty of inherent existence rather than there is something
• there is knowing but it's empty of inherent existence in other words there's no inherently existent entity uh
• or three ways three avenues to see that awareness has no inherent existence meditatively that we can actually
• convincing that the awareness lacks inherent existence the other two are much more uh powerful
• existence to something seeing something with inherent existence as i said a couple of times
• it's pretty safe assumption to assume we are giving something inherent existence feeling it seeing it with the hair

On the Nature of Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 19 mentions

• awareness is empty awareness lacks inherent existence that's something very profound to say is something very very
• yeah my team says awareness has no inherent existence and your team is rubbish
• levels and what you really mean by saying it lacks inherent existence and why be so picky well because a lot is at
• it's the last bastion it's the last bastion of inherent existence for a practitioner who's developing and
• doesn't belong to me but it also lacks inherent existence itself okay so there's a couple of levels and the
• means empty empty of inherent existence so using this word luminous i don't know why
• exactly but what it really means is emptied inherent existence another another word that's used a lot
• and as such it's a dependent rising it lacks inherent existence so if this word luminosity for example
• is empty of inherent existence and knowing so what it turns out rather than there
• it's rather there is knowing but that knowing is empty of inherent existence and there is no inherently existing
• if okay if the word luminous actually means empty of inherent existence turns out that's what it means now why they
• actually mean to say awareness is empty inherent existence so this chitta matra
• not in consciousness that lacks any that has any inherent existence you could say my my very nature our very nature
• and he said there are three problems with giving inherent existence to awareness the first one is this
• are mutually dependent cannot have inherent existence two things that are mutually dependent cannot have inherent
• they're different they lack inherent existence they lack a separate independent existence
• fabricated by delusion just the notion that things are inherent existence will fabricate consciousness
• something there that i was taking to have inherent existence and then i went beyond that and going beyond that
• i either believed in that things inherent existence or i didn't realize that i was clinging to his inherent

The Union of Appearance and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• um and so a person will say the transcendent has no inherent existence and that may be quite right
• existence or he's calling the object of negation inherent existence refuting without residue inherent existence and
• negation inherent existence refuting without residue inherent existence and on the other hand the feasibility of
• it means to say that things lack inherent existence on the one hand and on the other hand or compliment to that
• don't actually refute this innate sense of inherent existence it's not just a theory it's not just a theoretical
• theory it's not just a theoretical philosophical problem inherent existence we look at the world and we feel in our
• uh we see we feel in a gut level we feel the inherent existence of things another way we can not negate enough
• will deliberately said this already give awareness inherent existence or uh or the inherent existence of
• awareness inherent existence or uh or the inherent existence of awareness is just left unnoticed and
• is true i'm not denying the object i'm denying its inherent existence i'm refuting its inherent existence but if
• denying its inherent existence i'm refuting its inherent existence but if i'm a little not careful with that what
• i say this body or this suffering or this being it lacks inherent existence as if inherent exists is something i
• little freedom it's as if we could take away the inherent existence say that's empty but the thing is still the thing
• very nice this talk about emptiness and lack of inherent existence but so what because when push comes to shove it's
• how much freedom can come from seeing the lack of inherent existence understanding we underestimate that
• suffering is actually tied to our perceiving of inherent existence i think it takes quite a while to see that

Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 15 mentions

• actively disbelieve the inherent existence of things which is different than just not having a
• we're actually wanting to really look at this sense of inherent existence and actively disbelieve it
• millions of people have died in their belief in inherent existence of the country
• this is the problem the belief in inherent existence clearly scotland exists because i can go on holiday in
• so it functions you know but it lacks inherent existence so let's go into this what does that mean scotland exists in
• things and then afterwards we think hmm i think i'll add some inherent existence it's woven in to the way the mind
• it's not just not knowing that things lack inherent existence it's not just that we don't
• um they're empty of inherent existence and it allows functionality this is the also
• things don't exist okay we're saying that empty of an inherent existence he says likewise it is confused to
• obvious that this we suffer because we conceive inherent existence and if i see that something doesn't have an inherent
• at first but that if you see it's empty of inherent existence the relationship with it will change radically and
• finding the sense of the lack of inherent existence and things it's very important
• is that all of those are empty of inherent existence they can never not be empathy of inherent existence that
• inherent existence they can never not be empathy of inherent existence that anything that's a thing will be empty in
• they are dependent arisings and so they're empty of inherent existence of existing independently

An Introduction to Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• we say in technical language the empathy of inherent existence now that's a very important word i'm
• going to explain what that means it has a lot of synonyms so inherent existence substantial existence self-existence
• if this inherent existence the appearance of inherent existence is woven in to the
• this inherent existence the appearance of inherent existence is woven in to the very way we experience things
• very way we experience things if i see inherent existence and i sense it and i feel it when i'm listening to a
• that has woven into it a perception of inherent existence how am i going to see through this
• how am i going to see through this illusion of inherent existence if it's woven into the very way i see all my
• because my just being with has woven into it the sense of inherent existence of things
• way that sees through the illusion of inherent existence actively kind of cut that illusion
• history of humanity has been over believing in the inherent existence of the country
• what we call the chilesas in in in pali depend on conceiving inherent existence and again i'm not sure how obvious that
• greed and aversion depend on conceiving inherent existence and things in other words they depend on the thing
• does it mean say something's dependent rising lacking inherent existence with where we're walking in a way a tightrope
• mind to awareness too is empty of inherent existence that's one of the places where this is

Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 13 mentions

• logical reasoning to refute to disprove the inherent existence of the self okay that's that's what we're doing in this
• question over a week ago what does this word inherent existence mean it means something exists in this case the self
• self-existent way okay that's what inherent existence means okay
• here it feels to be self-existent if that sense of the inherent existence isn't clear he said emptiness meditation
• that sounds quite intellectual the inherent existence of the sun but remember it's actually not intellectual
• any of these seven ways and that refutes the inherent existence okay and this seven ways gives much more of a
• self but all the time i'm starting by holding the sense of inherent existence of the self and i'm whole i'm connecting
• blank nothingness it actually means there is no inherent existence to this thing it means i can't find this thing
• this thing as inherently existing it does it lacks inherent existence so it actually has a kind of tone of
• but the notion of the self is something unitary and inherent existence means it is what it is
• unfindability and of its lack of inherent existence and if if one gets a little bit
• what you're actually looking for is the inherent existence of the self you're looking to find the self which is a
• the beginning the first step you feel that sense of inherent existence of the self you feel that and you feel the

The Freedom of No-thing-ness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• um we believe in the inherent existence of one pole or both poles of a duality as
• long exists independent of short so we believe in the inherent existence of a poll called mindfulness as opposed to
• exist as as dualities and that believing in the inherent existence of one i believe in this image of romantic union
• okay so the whole we could say it's empty it lacks inherent existence what about the parts
• it in see what happens the thing begins to lose a sense of inherent existence and actually
• what's being kind of disproved there is the inherent existence of things as as kind of separate things but somehow in
• you understand there's a kind of affirming but not of inherent existence i think i threw it out one time as an
• little bit about seeing that the body too has no inherent existence not only is it not me not mine but it also lacks
• is it not me not mine but it also lacks inherent existence and so
• consciousness consciousness all of them are actually empty of inherent existence it's not just that they're not me not
• can kind of feel like we're getting rid a bit of the sense of inherent existence of the self but if we still give the
• of the self but if we still give the aggregates inherent existence it's almost like these

Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World -... 12 mentions

• we know by now is another way of saying they lack inherent existence which means they're empathy okay
• this so duality they lack independent inherent existence and we draw one out so we actually notice noise more it
• and through our belief believing in the inherent existence the independent existence of each of those we we react
• distinction and giving of supposing of inherent existence so what would it be again as a practice
• we could say i suppose that to conceive of the inherent existence say of one of these dualities that i started talking
• about that conceiving of it as having inherent existence is also kind of clinging it's that thing and i'm i'm
• what it means to say something remember lacks inherent existence it's what it means to say this is the middle way
• yeah that's this is what emptiness means this is what lack of inherent existence means
• that things are appearing but with lack inherent existence they don't exist that way independent of the
• completely worthless or that's not what the lack of inherent existence means remember this is the middle way and
• out because it may be that something is given inherent existence like the mind in the chitamatra approach or like
• not mine or we see that the person lacks inherent existence when there is suffering these are ways of approaching

The Subtlety of Dependent Origination - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• sort of intuitive sense of time that we have of time having inherent existence and independent existence and trundling
• something real it doesn't have that inherent existence i would say that in the unfolding of of
• intuitive sense of things as having inherent existence but
• powerful and one sees the moment cannot have any inherent existence time cannot have an inherent existence you could say
• have any inherent existence time cannot have an inherent existence you could say for any any any anything to be you could
• century gave for why awareness could have no inherent existence this is the last one this is the kind of final nail
• last one this is the kind of final nail in the coffin of the inherent existence of awareness
• so the implication is the present moment lacks inherent existence because it doesn't have inherent in
• uh that are intuitive and felt to be inherent existence in existent self
• from last night's talk it's like is does awareness have inherent existence all this points to no it doesn't all these
• says those who believe in substantial reality in inherent existence may